Word: edens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just three films, Dean took America along with him. He walked into Hollywood and with East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant created a trilogy of youthful alienation. Then, at 24, he crashed his Porsche Spyder 550 on a California highway and died. That was nearly 40 years ago, and it marked the birth of Saint Jimmy, Punk Martyr. His life and death have inspired films (September 30, 1955), plays (Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean) and dozens of songs. Visits to Dean's Fairmount gravesite have become as much a part of celebrity...
...moment when the Australian military police burst in on him and his future wife Yvonne after he went AWOL from army camp. It finds its most complete form in Boyd's painting of Adam and Eve, 1947-48, their bodies like a pair of white tubers, embracing in an Eden that is also the Australian bush, while a huge patriarchal angel glares inquisitively at them from behind a tree and a curly horned ram -- the libido in Boyd's iconography -- stares back...
That's where our most famous alumnus comes in. And remember, he'll punish you if you spurn His Cantabridgian Eden for the Purgatory in Connecticut...
Whether this is effective is a matter of taste -- and endurance. Butler's earlier fiction, mostly about Americans in Vietnam and Vietnamese in the U.S., is tight and controlled (The Alleys of Eden and The Deuce are two of his novels). Here he deals obsessively with obsession, and in his frenzy forgets to let his readers...
...literature thesis is a good example. She's actually enjoying it. Having to Monday classes, she has spent the morning analyzing Hemingway's construction of the hero as outlined in his posthumous work, The Garden of Eden...